Noiz Waves

I thought I would have a look on Google to see how high up my blog appears when searching for keywords in my articles. After searching for “noiz waves introduction”, it just occurred to me how ugly and unoptimised the HTML page titles are for the blog posts by default in WordPress:

The name of my blog “Noiz Waves” and some useless text “Blog Archive” appears in the page title before the most crucial part of the post, the post title. After a short amount of investigation, I stumbled upon an article on search engine optimisation (SEO) by John Wiseman. Following his instructions, I modifed a section of the code in the header.php file of my current theme. Originally the code was

which I changed to

Now, the title of any html page title of a blog post will consist of only the post title. How optimised is that? This is how the same post looks like in Firefox now:

Oh so pure.

It would be possible to add some trailing static text to the title by using this code title

The potential for nice looking titles are only limited by your imagination. As an enhancement to WordPress, future versions should allow for page title formatting to be specified in a similar way to permalinks.